Sunday, May 13, 2012

How to conceal items with an authentic wooden ammunition box

I plan to make one of these if i can find enough lumber. Doesn't look too hard, so easy in fact that it dismays me so many reenactors still have blanket-covered plastic coolers.

This is based on the modern military idea of "ready boxes"...large containers pre-packed with everything a group needs and kept ready to grab and go, which helps eliminate the scramble of trying to get all your gear together the night before. As items need to be replenished, they are periodically done so to keep it constantly ready. Also makes carrying a reenactor's gear much less of a headache.

Here are some examples of ways to use your ammo box:

-Line the inside of your box with cedar for moth-resistant uniform storage

-Bolt two boxes together and remove the bottom of the box on top for greater capacity

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"Writing Home" engraving by Charles W. Reed, Hardtack & Coffee

CIVIL WAR REENACTING

Dressing like the Amish, sleeping on the ground, wearing heavy wool coats in 100 degree weather, shooting black powder rifles at things, pretending to be a dead person, fighting a messy war over and over again expecting different results, and debating endlessly about issues that ceased to be political concerns 150 years ago.

Follow the adventure of one such "living dead person" as he examines one of our country's oldest pastimes: bloodlessly reenacting people shooting each other. For reasons nobody fully understands, in front of a crowd and charging steep admission.